- Apr 25, 2014
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I a MSI x99s Gaming 7 motherboard with 4 sticks of 4Gb DDR4 RAM. The manual says to install 4 sticks in slots 1, 3, 5, and 7 (see pic) which I had them installed in for a year or so with no issues. About a month ago my PC wouldn't boot. No error codes, just black screen. In the past this was fixed by reseating the RAM. That wasn't working. So I tried each stick in slot 1 and I was able to boot. When I try slots 1 and 5 it won't boot.
I started trying different combinations and was able to use 12Gb of RAM if I used slots 1, 3, and 7. I started getting a ton of issues like my graphics driver would crash (not when gaming but just doing things like using an internet browser), tabs and browsers would crash constantly in both chrome and firefox, and I got a lot of "out of memory" errors on all kinds of programs. Several steam games would crash on loading a save game. After reinstalling drivers and both browsers, steam, and the games I was having issues with, nothing was working. I don't really believe I was running out of RAM ever since when I immediately looked at the task manager when I would have a crash or get an error I was at about 50% of 12Gb.
Now I have it configured so that I have 16Gb recognized by windows using slots 1, 2, 3, and 7. I still have issues but the frequency is dramatically lower. Instead of getting many errors and crashes a day I get maybe one every other day.
So, onto my actual question. I believe socket 5 is dead on my mobo and I was told that my RAM configuration is not ideal and it is causing my issues. That seems plausible. Would it be advisable to replace the mobo so I can use socket 5? Or are there other configurations that would work, such as what I am doing?
Thanks!
PC Specs:
MSI x99s Gaming 7 mobo
i7 5820K @ 3.30 GHz CPU
Corsair Vengence LPX 16Gb (4x4Gb) DDR4 RAM @ 2666 MHz
GTX 1080 Ti graphics card
I started trying different combinations and was able to use 12Gb of RAM if I used slots 1, 3, and 7. I started getting a ton of issues like my graphics driver would crash (not when gaming but just doing things like using an internet browser), tabs and browsers would crash constantly in both chrome and firefox, and I got a lot of "out of memory" errors on all kinds of programs. Several steam games would crash on loading a save game. After reinstalling drivers and both browsers, steam, and the games I was having issues with, nothing was working. I don't really believe I was running out of RAM ever since when I immediately looked at the task manager when I would have a crash or get an error I was at about 50% of 12Gb.
Now I have it configured so that I have 16Gb recognized by windows using slots 1, 2, 3, and 7. I still have issues but the frequency is dramatically lower. Instead of getting many errors and crashes a day I get maybe one every other day.
So, onto my actual question. I believe socket 5 is dead on my mobo and I was told that my RAM configuration is not ideal and it is causing my issues. That seems plausible. Would it be advisable to replace the mobo so I can use socket 5? Or are there other configurations that would work, such as what I am doing?
Thanks!
PC Specs:
MSI x99s Gaming 7 mobo
i7 5820K @ 3.30 GHz CPU
Corsair Vengence LPX 16Gb (4x4Gb) DDR4 RAM @ 2666 MHz
GTX 1080 Ti graphics card
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